How to mock a static facade methods in Laravel

Question

Is there any way to create static facade in Laravel? If yes, How to create them?

Answer 1

Hey,

Facades provide a "static" interface to classes that are available in the application's service container. 

Unlike traditional static method calls, facades may be mocked. We can mock the call to the static facade method by using the shouldReceive method, which will return an instance of a Mockery mock.

$value = Cache::get('key');

// testing
Cache::shouldReceive('get')
                    ->once()
                    ->with('key')
                    ->andReturn('value');